there was this whole debt ceiling crisis where they were about to default on american debt and send the entire global economy into a tailspin. and that's how we ended up with the sequester. now, if i remember rightly, it wasn't the president's idea to play around with default. but i could be wrong. i mean, what do i know in. >> and i thought that the president outsmarted those guys at the time. boehner is now retroactively trying to admit that after having said he got 98% of what he wanted. >> right. he wants to blame the president for a solution to, as richard said, the problem he created and this is not the natural order of things. i mean, lawrence, you showed the tape today that i thought was very important of boehner basically saying, hey, it's all in the dems. it's all in the senate. and if you go to thesource.com, opposition does not always equal obstruction or doing nothing. i mean, newt gingrich who i don't hold up as a great example of much at least had the courage of his convictions to get out there and pass bills. that's not what these guys are about. they're about obstructio